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Monday, 13 June 2016

Tony Blair: Britain must give up MORE powers to Brussels

The view of a criminal warmonger

Tony
Blair: Britain must give up MORE powers to Brussels and mass
migration 'GOOD for UK

TONY
Blair has called alled for Britain to surrender MORE powers to
unelected Brussels bureaucrats and insisted mass migration from
eastern Europe has been GOOD for the country as he made a bizarre
case for staying in the EU

The
Europhile former prime minister claimed the UK will be unable to
defend itself from Islamic State (ISIS) and Russia without the help
of France and Germany and said David Cameron should give up further
influence to Brussels' growing security services.

Describing
the potential consequences of a Brexit as "very serious",
the maligned Labour grandee warned it would be "irrational to be
alone" when faced with competition from India, China and the US.

His
comments came as the leave campaign opened up a huge six-point lead
in the polls, with voters increasingly losing faith in Mr Cameron's
ability to secure a good deal from European leaders.

But
Mr Blair, who is tipped as a future EU president, appeared to back
the farcical negotiation even though he admitted he was "against"
giving people a say on Britain's future in the first place.

The
former Prime Minister called the current refugee crisis a 'tragedy'

He
said: "There are ways in which more integration would be
advantageous, from security to energy, others in which our
differences should be celebrated.

"Europe
must be integrated to protect its interests and values. Other
countries in Latin America and Asia work together to have more
influence.

"From
the economy to security only by standing together can we defend
ourselves."

The
ex Prime-Minister, who was only prevented from introducing the euro
to Britain by the intervention of then Chancellor Gordon Brown, has
been a staunch advocate for the EU project in recent years as he eyes
up a plum job on the Brussels gravy train.

And
speaking about the Prime Minister's beleaguered attempts to wrestle
reforms from other European leaders, he said: "Cameron seems
near to an agreement that would allow us to fight to stay in Europe.

"The
interests of the UK to stay in Europe should be clear to everyone.

"The
consequences of a Brexit would be very serious."

In
a wide-ranging interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica he also
claimed that mass migration under his premiership, when more than
three million mostly eastern European people moved to Britain to
live, has been "good" for the country.

More
recent Labour leaders have admitted that the party got it wrong by
failing to acknowledge people's fears about immigration, culminating
in Mr Brown calling a voter a "bigot" for raising the
topic.

Describing
the current refugee crisis as a "tragedy" an unrepentant Mr
Blair said: "There are three types of immigration.

"The
economic one is shown to be good, with appropriate rules, that has
been seen in the US as in Britain.

"Then,
the issue of refugees. Europe must open the door, for moral reasons,
to those who flee from persecution.

"But
we have to check the third type of immigration.We must be wary that
extremists are not hiding among those fleeing."

Finally,
the ex-Prime Minister criticised US and European leaders for not
learning from the mistakes of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that
he took Britain into when addressing the current crisis in Syria.

In
total 635 British service personnel lost their lives after Mr Blair
decided to take the country into both wars in the face of
overwhelming public opposition.

But
without a hint of shame he said: "Unfortunately we have not
learned the lessons of the Arab Spring and before that the war in
Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Evolution
is better than revolution, because revolution sweeps away the state
structures and in that vacuum radical elements can grow and cause
instability."

Mr
Blair's intervention comes just a day after Brexit campaigners
welcomed his rival pro-EU camp, claiming the ex-prime minister is the
“least trusted politician in Britain”.